the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in libya hundreds protest against the gadhafi regime in tripoli as opposition forces prepared to make their final assault on the capital. of the nation a scramble to evacuate their citizens from troubled libya but momos the experts are eager to get out some are reluctant to leave behind the lives they use. the oil is the most valuable resource on the planet. who controls is extremely important restively oil rich arab nations pushes fuel prices are with predictions that the u.s.

might intervene to stop its own fragile economy from skidding in the trouble we report that. has britain is prepared to tell all in the makes us national census there is deep concern that the u.s. firm collecting the information could dish out their data to american intelligence by law. you're watching out eight pm moscow time welcome my name is kevin though in our top story tonight gunmen gun fire has been heard on the streets of the libyan capital as hundreds of opposition protesters gather to call for an end so colonel gadhafi is rule there are also reports of pro-government forces launching airstrikes on for testers in other parts of the country as he's paid for all of his keeping across developments in neighboring egypt. colonel gadhafi is not in control anywhere

outside of the capital of tripoli or in tripoli on monday we've seen hundreds of protesters on the streets protesting against the gadhafi regime this protesters apparently resulted in mercenaries firing upon the protesters there's also been reports that security forces fired shots into the air to try and disperse these groups of people on the streets we've been hearing that it's a military base a libyan military base that's now in an area completely under control by opposition forces by the air from libyan jets frontline all of this battle between the opposition forces and those still loyal to colonel gadhafi is happening in a wire around fifty kilometers to the west of the capital tripoli now inside the city it's completely controlled by opposition forces but they are ringed by mercenaries and troops that are loyal to colonel gadhafi and those protesters those

anti-government forces that are still inside the city of there where they say that they are planning to make a push against those those forces that are loyal to the current regime lots and lots of news coming out of libya not just out of libya but a bounce libya is really newspapers reported that colonel gadhafi private jet is being in in minsk in bellary starts now arrived back in tripoli now this is the same jet that was believed to have been refused entry into levanon last wednesday colonel gadhafi has appointed the head of the foreign intelligence service in libya to try and make some kind of contact to get these opposition forces now they have their base in benghazi in the east of the country that's where operations appear to be in control from what they have a defacto come until it's been set up inside one of duffy's. former palaces well

there was damning condemnation from across the world at a meeting of the human rights council you and human rights council in geneva leaders and foreign secretaries from around the globe condemning the violence and saying that colonel gadhafi should step down now among those to condemn the violence and to call for a future where libya controls the future of its own people russian foreign secretary said a good lover of. mass protests across the middle east and north african countries that exposed a range of problems that have piled up for educates first of all poverty unemployment and then go into the social and economic rights in general these problems should be addressed by the people of the affected countries without any coercion or external interference the use of military force against civilians is unacceptable leave it costs hundreds of civilian deaths russia condemns such violence demands its immediate cessation and the observance of international humanitarian law sanctions that were put in place over the weekend by the un

security council and these sanctions have now been echoed by the e.u. on monday they've put in place their own sanctions as well now part of these u.n. sanctions was that it was the referral of the violence in libya to the international criminal court in the hague now it has been suggested that if colonel gadhafi his sons all some high ranking libyan officials were to make an appearance at the international criminal court it's interesting revelations could be made about their relationship with the libyan regime his relationship with western governments colonel gadhafi doesn't enjoy the greatest of relationships with foreign nations over the majority of his reign but in the past seven or so years he had seen a a rehabilitation almost among western governments and some experts are warning that there could be some embarrassing details for these governments they could come out . should anybody appear on the stand in the hague i think the americans and people

like tony blair would be very very frightened of nicolas sarkozy or mr berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about trial because then their. regime and the people that are still supporting him in tripoli in their bunkers will be able to tell all the stories about everything from well could be. american and british arms companies were involved in propping up that regime and there are a string of e-mail that have an e-mail trail i don't think the americans or london or brussels would very much want that to come out in court well any investigation into what has been going on in libya is some way of what is happening right now is a humanitarian crisis that's what it's being called on the border between sheen is the air and libya they are the red cross turning it a disastrous cage's disaster situation there humanitarian crisis the amount of people fleeing across the border to get out of libya increasing hour by hour the

u.n. estimating well over one hundred thousand people of have had to leave the country so far now it's not just people leaving on the ground coming to either live. or into egypt as you mentioned foreign governments have also being trying to get their people out of the country we've seen aircraft and ships on the on board to take people from different countries out of libya and get them away from any trouble it's happening there now russia also sent its own airplane into libya to try in evacuating to evacuate people from the country and artie's oksana boyko went along to see firsthand what those people had to say about the violence that's been ongoing in the country propelled by fear how that played out there you know those who boarded the last russian emergency plane from libya didn't want to leave then.

better safe than story except constructor for gasper on alexy says he never cared much about and they've been politics that is until arguments replaced by grants it's just so. dangerous because. it's. just. the responsibility. doesn't. just. for years it was a mantra for many foreign companies ignore get out his quirks and you'll be rewarded in oil revenues but as the lead sleeps closer to civil war these claws no longer seems bulletproof yet even on the russian plane there were some grim

predictions for a blown out of proportion and sure enough was worth and as a nurse for twenty years so sure already regrets the decision to flee. all those reports by al jazeera and all the arab language channels calls shia panic among the people new bodies attack in tripoli there is no shooting us that there could easily go to see my friends all the young people supported gadhafi hospitals are working as usual as all the people that it's open today everything functions people who want to leave as they can here to be in the country awash with firearms the current law and violence increasingly looks like a calm before the storm that's why tripoli airport is now be easier than ever with a country scrambling to pull their citizens out or all get our phrase known to proudly cell phone being issued negotiator even in the way the back ation of foreign nationals has been carried out over the past week. government before

servicing the brains of the tripoli airport has more than tripled to more than eight hundred thousand dollars per plane considering that experts used to make about twenty percent of the country's labor force the cry from the rear is proving to be a very good source of cash the last thing two thousand of its residents caught up in there and rest russian managed the evacuation fairly easily other countries didn't fare that well the egyptian uprising may have inspired libyans but it also left thousands of egyptian gas torturers stranded at tripoli airport it's very little if any assistance from their state a few years ago many countries raced to leave their cars all reserves and the biggest anaphora nowadays even more frantically is they're trying to get out the deuce fleeing the violence see it's just a matter of time before they'll be back absolutely corot see tripoli. extra hole

talk about more about this now with. roving correspondent for the asia times it is france to be with us are following america's leading today than it imposed sanctions on the libyan leader's regime trying to establish contact with the opposition what are your thoughts on this you think we're witnessing echoes maybe of what happened the balkans back in the ninety's only foreign interference to will influence. well i think to a lot of people this will sound and to look like a freddy kruger movie you know it's this is very very early return of you many chair and fury of this so it seems have to be very clear ok sanctions i guess because i think. freezing their assets in europe that's ok but no need to imperialist adventurism in order to ask this depending how the situation before depending of this bush also eastern liberated libya if they have enough weapons and they can organize a push towards tripoli this is what they're actually do do we now as we speak if

this doesn't work and the next step the discussed already even brussels in london any washington would be a need to invasion this would be absolutely disgusting but we cannot rule it out for them i want to talk about out of it more in a minute but really i guess one of the big drivers here is energy of cooking oil production in libya it's drop by almost half cheering this unrest to what extent is all driving western reaction over the region's crisis. absolutely crucial because it leaves it export one point seven million barrels a day the protests are spreading to all men all men for this is more or less eight hundred thousand so can you imagine if the week or two we have two point five million barrels of oil at the out of the market like saudi arabia could compensate at one million and a half but not in two point five million and this will have. the barrel of oil

going to one hundred thirty or one hundred forty dollars it's already one fourteen today so yes it's absolutely essential so i would say that the rationale for a possible western intervention in libya would be used to oil production in the lead to any no man would seize complete. other angle to this money condemning of course the libyan regime's hard line actions against protesters what what is the likelihood though do you think of us ever seeing trials over human rights abuses. what this is it's in many novels hypocritical conundrum isn't it because the us they don't support the hig because they are cherry flight of having u.s. politicians like former presidents who are the pentagon pentacle generals brought to the i.c.c. . and the acquisition of crimes against humanity ranging from every scene from iraq

to the asked stockist own tribal areas but on the other hand they once because that's the clan to be brought to the i.c.c. and as one of your your reporters were saying can imagine if god that he will tell us on a twenty four seventh's basis because the aberration of libya with the glare of the scrawny trio that you know brought qaddafi back to the international community all the shady deals seawalls all the shading financial deals with it and specially eighteen which has invested at least fifty billion dollars india's oil interests in libya and the daughter relationships of thirty every european government not to mention the us an arms dealers from britain will be a fantastic sure winner we touched on it just now quickly russia's leading calls for the country to net libya find its own path how capable though is the country of securing its own feet chip by its own devices. look i would say russia stroll

explored the right state but we don't know what it's called course of circumstances the form that called mediate in a easterly reader leave being gas in all the other cities supported needs. how to run eastern libya in the next weeks and how cool or deny this search for stuart seals did because it critical cities where the. tribe comes from its own the way older rolled from benghazi to tripoli in the middle east iran yet if you conquer cities then you can circle tripoli conclusion but this is not a given because there's a lot of. loyalists that are concentrated in syria that's what so if they'd managed to do this let's see within the next week or ten days then we're going to have an assault on tripoli it's going to be horrible it's going to be civil war it's going to get bloodshed but it will be the end game but nobody knows if this is going to

happen. in sao paulo brazil thanks for your thoughts on r.t. tonight it's pretty shaded. well we've libyan oil production down fifty percent as mentioned just now it's thought the jump in prices could be just the start of a bumpy ride surging fuel costs in the united states are threatening to derail the country's economic recovery as artist laura lister reports next the political price may be just too high for the a bummer administration. tunisia and. egypt . the hurricane. algeria. and libya protest in countries seeming to fuel one another unrest spreading like wildfire through the middle east and north africa only raging in all year for all rich countries that help fuel the world's use of more than eighty four million barrels of crude a day. uncertainty over production has sent prices soaring i mean the

shock waves from the middle east turmoil are being felt worldwide oil is the most valuable resource on the planet today could be. extremely right now the mideast crisis is hitting home for outteridge americans as oil prices have skyrocketed so too have the prices people pay for gasoline and now the price americans pay at the pump is threatening to derail the u.s. economic recovery a surge in oil. prices will be the end of the u.s. a current not just an end to the recovery there's no more bailouts what a reality people oil expert michael c. rupert sees happening it all hits one hundred fifty dollars a barrel which he believes is inevitable this year others predict it going to two hundred twenty dollars it's so devastating because oil. fuels more than just cars.

it fuels the entire global economy. though there's no doubt that if gas goes to five dollars a gallon for americans asked some predict there would be a high political price to pay for the obama administration's yeah yeah serene price and go out and march and for a very long period it could. be your or. your political impact here there is no denying the u.s. has played a role in the events that have transpired in the middle east every time. u.s. president barack obama went to the podium calling for this that there must be reform political social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the egyptian people and calling for egyptian president hosni mubarak's resignation he was calling for an end to the status quo which means a rise in uncertainty in rich region so did leaders weigh the toll it could take on

their own economy some argue they don't have the power to kind of waning back up trying to push their back against an avalanche and i don't think we're going to hear a lot of success and that may not stop the u.s. from trying to take control some observers believe the u.s. may intervene militarily in libya or oil reserves are massive under false pretenses and helping protesting people has nothing to do with interest. it has everything to do with the interest of the u.s. corporate oil corporations military corporate profits either way analysts say the price of fuel going uk will simply fuel public rage and the government is largely helpless the american people are going for a very nasty ride and there's no way out of it now but i can tell you the government understands that it's not laura mr r.t. new york if people of britain are about to get probed about who they are and how

they live with the latest nationwide census just around the corner but there's a fear over who will get to see the sensitive information they tell about themselves because a controversial u.s. defense corporations in charge of collecting the data as artie's found. it's census time in the u.k. where every household in the country is asked to provide detailed information about their lives to the government so they can keep track of what's going on and who will be in charge of this sensitive data. yes it's controversial u.s. arms manufacturer a lot need martin and campaigners ranging from religious groups to peace activists to data protection lobbyists are really against it on ethical grounds play on a number of oppressive regimes they also. are us heavily in the wars they fought in iraq and afghanistan opposed by the majority of people in britain even if support

equality the british government hill vows to boycott the census despite the risk of prosecution he says he won't be alone look he makes land mines and nuclear weapons and contracts out interrogation kuantan of a pe although it will be the u.k. arm that carries out the survey there's still a worry that the information could fall under the auspices of the us patriot act which compels personal data held by any company on systems in the us to be made available to government intelligence the office but national statistics which in gage's lockheed martin maintains it's taken measures to make sure u.s. authorities can't access the data. all dance of processing will be carried out in the u.k. dance will leave will be held any point outside the u.k. lockheed martin staff will have access to any personal census data all data is the property of the and only u.k.e. you owned companies will have any access to personal census data but it's that last

point that's raise red flags for data protection lobbyists who say that all the private information collected during the census will be available to practically any organization that requests it any use under any statute. only use by the security or intelligence services for national security purposes any use for the pursuit of crime any use in pursuit of an e u community obligation so any e.u. rules that information can be passed over so it's essentially any government use whatsoever the competition has been abolished and u.k. government agencies don't exactly have a great track record when it comes to safeguarding information three years ago i thought well containing secrets terror related talk events was left on a train more recently the national health service lost the medical records of tens of thousands of people thanks to lockheed martin's involvement in the census it

would be hard for the u.s. authorities to lay their hands on that information if they wanted a tip a misstep says is used by the government to award grants to local councils and recognize new groups in society a sense is run by lockheed martin raises grave concerns investing about ethics and international security if a lot of people boycott this that says it will make it ineffective and a waste of money but the two hundred forty million dollar contracts amount will go into looking at martins pockets anyway you're an authority on that. new stories for your group of people of chile have been marking a year now since that massive earthquake. they killed over five hundred people and left hundreds of thousands homeless the country's president led commemorations in a town that was all but destroyed by the quake protests took place accusing the government of being too slow with rebuilding shattered communities and only half of the damaged property is remain uninhabitable but purrs are being dogged by

bureaucratic hold ups. for british airways r t workers being found guilty in the united kingdom of involvement in trying to bomb an airplane and was convicted of conspiring with a radical yemeni cleric and stage a tax cut in previously admitted fund raising for terrorism but denied getting a job would be a with the intention of carrying out attacks so it's twenty four pm moscow time this is r t let's get across the latest monday i business next. welcome to business good to have you with us russia central bank has raised the benchmark refinancing rate eight percent from an all time low of seven point seven five percent for the first time since two thousand and eight the move is aimed at responding to accelerating consumer price increases and comes as russia's finance minister calls for banking offshore ease to meet inflation target of seven percent this year to discuss this we're joined by year's officer. back russia thanks for

coming in so what's behind this decision well the main reason for this decision. a very high level of inflation in russia this is currently the main macroeconomic risk for the global economy and for the russian economy as well so the greater activism that we see on the anti inflationary front from the central bank is primarily motivated precisely by this desire to keep inflation close to levels that are targeted for this year which currently are significantly lower now compared to where the actual inflation rate is currently inflation is approaching ten percent and as you just already mentioned the target for this year is six to seven percent. do you think essential bank will continue raising there with financing and where do you see the end of it yeah i think in the near term we should expect more rate hikes the monetary authorities but at the same time we do

expect that towards the second quarter of this year inflation is likely to start to moderate and that will take some of the pressure from the monetary authorities to increase rates so we expect the current level of eight percent probably somewhat higher to. persist until the end of the torah talking about inflation going out what instruments do you think it already can use to sort of stabilize the inflation . at least not you know to keep it on this level of need to lower it i think of course the central bank will not rely just on one instrument that will seek to use the entire array of instruments in its tool kit and apart from the interest rate we will see a strong global i think and the exchange rate instrument will be used i think apart from that was served requirements are already used to contain inflationary

pressures and then i think over and above what the central bank can do there will be other measures hopefully we will see some fiscal moderation even though this is an election year so this will be somewhat difficult and then i think structural measures things like trade liberalization lowering tariffs import tariffs on some of the items for example something that has already been done that's very important that could be used for the over the course of this year so what's your personal forecast for two thousand and eleven what do you think it will be for this year we're forecasting eight and a half percent currently as well prices are so high i would say there are upside risks to that outlook but if the authorities are determined enough they will only employ the entire array of instruments to deal with inflation i think it is possible to contain inflation to around eight percent this year and what about the ruble how do we see compared to the dollar and the euro in two thousand and eleven

well currently we've seen the break through the twenty nine ruble versus the dollar mark which is already quite an achievement for the ruble and since the beginning of the year we've seen already significant appreciation i think there's more to come given the will present werman that we have right now so for the end of the year we have twenty eight rubles first is the dollar is our target ok thank you your. chief economist from bank russia and that's all for now the. i'll be back with another update in about fifteen minutes so join me then from worn.

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